• SoylentSnake [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    I'll chime in and say that I do get where you're coming from. I've come around to a philosophy of - if not universal love - then some measure of universal compassion (easier to do when you don't really believe in free will). I used to get off way more on crab-party-bad-people-dead-schadenfreude stuff (and still have my moments from time to time) but I realized it didn't make sense for me or do me any good and also was kind of a sad & impotent vent for my own powerlessness. That said I also believe in protecting yourself in a world full of harmful people and I don't believe in expending unnecessary emotional bandwidth for people who actively make the world worse if it costs you any amount of excess mental or emotional energy, because yeah oppression bad, capitalists (especially billionaires) bad, certain people would need to be sent back into the universe (if u catch my drift) who are too dangerous to keep around in a revolutionary scenario (something I see as an unfortunate - even tragic - reality rather than something to get off on).

    I guess tl:dr is its fine (maybe even good) to feel a certain baseline empathy for these ppl, but its also fine to indulge the schadenfreude if that's where you're at. Also there's a certain undeniable gallows Loony Tunes comedy to the specific way they got got, hard to argue with that simply objectively.

    • President_Obama [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      feel a certain baseline empathy for these ppl,

      That's all my comment was, saying that my first emotional reaction to the news was empathy. Ig my bad for not expounding all of my thoughts on the topic (which you did do, and thanks for taking the time), which left some people to fill in the blanks. For example, I didn't mention my second emotional response, which was "LMAO"

      • SoylentSnake [he/him, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        Ya I getchu homie, & my pleasure. Chachat is better than most social media but it can still be hard to explore nuance or contradiction in internet discourses and there's a certain amount of kneejerk debate mentality baked into this whole internet thing we've got goin that can be hard to shake.